Stephen Mayall

I create GTM strategies that build pipeline - by prioritising demand generation & content above everything else | Marketing Director @ Log my Care

I love marketing startups, I hate marketing myself. So here's six quick sound bites about me and my work, to date.

1) I went from award-winning designer for one of the worlds fastest-selling consumer products in history to director of content at an ASX-listed startup and running marketing at a global Edtech startup.

2) I developed a proprietary playbook and sales system directly responsible for exceeding monthly quotas for direct demo MQLs, and building over 60% of the sales pipeline and 70% of revenue.

3) I built BridgeUs highly popular blog and content engine from zero to 40K engaged email subscribers and over 500 inbound leads per month. 

4) I scaled Webcentrals website and blog from $5M - $20M ARR  

5) This is how I sum up my job. I help SaaS startups implement scalable GTM strategies to grow their audience, leads, pipeline & revenue.

6) 🔝 To connect with with me, ring the bell 🔔 on my profile, follow for daily content on marketing, content strategy and distribution.

Better yet, subscribe to my weekly newsletter the content playbook. 

Every Wednesday, you'll get one actionable, zero-fluff email to help you distribute your content to attract and convert your ideal customer. 3 min read.

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Marketing Director

I help early-stage SaaS startups build scalable GTM strategies that strengthen their brand, generate sales leads and convert them into customers.

- Content strategy
- Content marketing
- GTM strategy
- Demand generation
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CEO @Ronin | The Marketing Agency CISOs Wish You’d Hire

Clark Barron is the outspoken CMO of Ronin & Founding Editor of Burn It Down, the rogue media platform for Marketers that are tired of pretending this is normal. 

After his first marketing campaign almost landed him in jail, he’s been taking over the world of B2B marketing as a disruptor, setting both vendors and marketing teams alike back on the path towards sanity through his consulting work at Ronin and Investigative journalism through Burn It Down. 

Open to consulting, speaking engagements, and more.
Reach out at Clark@DeployRonin.com

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Clark Barron

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝟰𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆.

And here's something I just realized.

𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹.


It's not.

I've been doing this for 15 years and it just hit me like a truck in a Walmart parking lot.

It's not real. It was never real. We made it up. All of it.

The whole thing is a hallucination that 200,000 LinkedIn professionals are having simultaneously and nobody's called a doctor.

I build software that scans what marketing vendors actually do on your website versus what they say they do. 

I've seen the code. I've seen the data. 

I have looked behind the curtain and I regret to inform you that there's not even a wizard back there. It's just a roomba bumping into shit.

B2B marketing is not marketing.

Think about what we actually do for a living. Actually think about it. Don't recite your LinkedIn headline.

Think.
 
A person — a real human person who is tired and has a kid and hates their commute — gets voluntold in a meeting to "look into solutions."

They don't want a solution. They don't want YOUR solution. They want to go home. They are now your "buyer."

They are not a buyer.

They are a hostage of organizational process who is going to pick whatever their friend mentioned once so they can close the laptop and watch television like a human being.
 
And what do we do?

What does our $50 billion industry do with this person who just wants to go home?

We score them—Like meat.

We assign a number to a person and when the number hits a threshold we call that person "qualified" and hand them to someone who's going to call them while they're eating lunch. We named this process. We gave it an acronym.

We built CAREERS around this.

People have TITLES based on how well they optimize the scoring of human beings who want to be 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲.

And nobody — not one single person in 20 years — stood up in a meeting and said "hey are we the bad guys?"

The whole industry is a perpetual motion machine that runs on denial and Series B funding.

At 25, I believed in craft.

At 30, I believed in the dashboard.

At 35, I believed things could change. 

At 40...

I don't believe any of you.


Happy birthday to me.

Founder, Blackout | Blocked by ZoomInfo’s CEO | Banned by r/Marketing | Hated by Vendors | Loved by Runtime

The AI visibility gold rush is built on a question nobody asked.

Liam recently wrote something worth reading about the citation problem in AI — that the citations in AI responses might be post-hoc decoration, not the actual source material. That the metric everyone’s chasing might not even measure what they think it measures.

He’s right. But there’s a layer underneath it.

Nobody validated that the moment was worth chasing in the first place.

The entire industry — the consultants, the tools, the overnight experts with proprietary frameworks — got built on a single observation: AI tools sometimes mention brands.

That’s it. That’s the foundation.

What didn’t happen: What percentage of people actually use ChatGPT or Claude for vendor discovery?

Of those, how many act on the recommendation? 

How does that convert compared to literally any other channel?

Nobody asked. The train left anyway.

Because this is what the martech ecosystem does. 

It finds a real observation, skips demand validation entirely, and goes straight to selling shovels. The observation wasn’t wrong — AI does recommend brands. But “AI mentions brands” becoming “you need an AI visibility strategy” required a dozen unvalidated leaps that nobody flagged.

And now the citations themselves might not even reflect what’s informing the answer.

Same playbook as always. New mechanism. The SEO backlink era with a language model in front of it.

Maybe AI-driven discovery matters enormously in three years. Maybe it doesn’t. The honest answer is nobody knows yet.

The shovels are moving.
The gold is theoretical.

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